Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
Volume 57, Issue 6 , Pages 985-989 , December 2007

Short wait times for patients seeking cosmetic botulinum toxin appointments with dermatologists

  • Jack S. Resneck Jr., MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology and Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Jack S. Resneck Jr, MD, Department of Dermatology and Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, Box 0316, San Francisco, CA 94143-0316.
    • ,
  • Shira Lipton, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
    • ,
  • Mark J. Pletcher, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California

,Accepted 17 July 2007.

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 Funding sources: Dr Resneck was supported by a career development award from The Dermatology Foundation, which played no role in design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript. There were no commercial funders or other sources of support for this study.

 Disclosure: Dr Resneck chairs the Workforce Task Force of the American Academy of Dermatology. Dr Lipton and Dr Pletcher have no conflicts of interest to declare.

 Selected and limited preliminary descriptive results presented in abstract form at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Society for Investigative Dermatology, Los Angeles, Calif, May 12, 2007.

PII: S0190-9622(07)01168-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2007.07.020

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
Volume 57, Issue 6 , Pages 985-989 , December 2007

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